blossoms into dreams

A little girl watering her precious blossom .... from Mo Manning's digital image April.

I totally loved colouring her using water-colours - and especially 'muddying' up her cute little pink boots!

Sentiment comes from Penny Black's Friendship (T for Transparent) stamp set.

Entering card for this week's 

Mo's Challenge #228 -"CAS (Clean and Simple)" 

with a Mo Manning digi or stamped image!

a final close-up shot of the adorable cutie-pie

All things grow with LOVE

All things grow with LOVE, a photo by eatzycath on Flickr.

A second card made for this week's Paper Smooches July 8-14 Designer Drafts challenge, based on the card sketch below.

A very simple card to make,

* die-cut the circle on white card - I used the QuicKutz Nesting Floral Doilies set

* on the bottom half of the circle die-cut, I used a handmade stencil by cutting freehand a rolling form edge, and then colored in layers using chalk in dark brown and green (to represent the mounds of earth)

* using the Paper Smooches Green Thumb 1 die, I die-cut the watering can on green polka-dotted patterned paper, and then stamped the watering can from the Green Thumb stamp set

* the sentiment "All things grow with Love" from Impression Obsession was stamped in sepia ink

* the watering can was then affixed with mounting tape

* the little hearts were stamped in orange ink, and then dabbed with glitter glue

* final touch - a round brad with apple motive was added on top of the alphabet "O" in the word "LOVE"

* circle was then affixed to the green cardstock base using mounting tape